You are correct. Since this is a non-science debate -- I am willing to go against my oft-stated normal policy of down-voting cherry-picking, strawmen, and other rhetorical tactics (as pointed out at the beginning of both my replies). I have now up-voted. You have indeed been very reasonable in a most-often heated debate and I am more than willing to recognize that (however, I am not changing my policy of down-voting science-denying articles -- those are NOT "disagreement" when they employ rhetorical tactics and statistical games rather than honest debate). Humans are very susceptible to confirmation bias and group-think and need to check constantly to ensure that they haven't fallen prey to it.